Private Plates Entitlement Question

terrywastecake

Hi all,

I purchased a private plate from newreg.com for my girlfriends car and the 12 months is running out to assign it.

On the V750 Certificate of Entitlement it states that the "Purchaser" is Newreg and the "nominee" is my girlfriend.

I have paid all the fees on placement of the order and am ready to go, but what I want to know is, when I register the plate to my girlfriends car, will the plate then be transferred to my girlfriend being that it is registered to her?

What I am worried about is that will newreg remain the purchaser and be involved every time that she wants to transfer to another vehicle in the future?

This worries me as, if they do remain the purchaser, they will charge a fee of around £80 additional to DVLA charges every time she wants to do anything with it.

On the back of the V750 CofE form it states that "the nominee shown, where appropriate, has no rights to this vehicle registration number"

It then goes on to say "if this number is assigned to the nominees vehicle, entitlement to the number passes to them as they are the registered keeper"

Sorry about the long post but I'm a bit confused about it. I think I'd rather just let it go than pay an additional £80 to newreg each time my girlfriend does something with it as the plate only cost £250

Any help much appreciated!

Regards

scheming_gypsy

DVLA will always be the owner of the reg plate. If your girlfriend wants to swap it to another car she'll have to pay the £80 to the DVLA

All number plates come from the DVLA, so Newreg has bought the number plate from the DVLA (probably at a discounted rate) and it's going on your girlfriends car. If you'd bought it direct from the DVLA then where it says Newreg it'd have your name instead.

terrywastecake

thanks for the reply.

what i am asking though, is, once the plate has been registered to my gf's vehicle, will newreg still remain the purchaser of the plate or will responsibility, for want of a better word, be transferred to my gf?

reason i ask is, if newreg remain the "purchaser" than it means my gf would need to apply to newreg, for a fee, to carry out future transfers as it would not be in her name.

Basically, as soon as it is registered to my gf's vehicle, are newreg out of the picture, therefore giving the rights of future transferrals etc to my gf??

Thanks in advance

Gloomendoom

In a word... yes.

terrywastecake

edit: Thanks, but are you saying yes my gf will be the new "responsible party" as per my last paragraph? or newreg will be as per my 1st paragraph?

(sorry, should have worded my previous post a bit better)

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I was looking at plates on newreg once and didn't like their nominee way of doing things. As this meant they had control over the reg.

Always use DVLA registrations in future as they put it in your name from day one.

terrywastecake

thanks, but on googling a little bit more it seems that once the reg is applied to a vehicle, it is the registered owner of that vehicle that has the right to transfer the plate to another vehicle or retain the plate in the future (subject, of course to a dvla fee).

form v5 from the dvla for transferring a plate confirms this (i think), as the only details required are that of the vehicle owner i.e my gf and not the original purchaser i.e newreg.

please can anyone confirm this for my peace of mind??

Gloomendoom

terrywastecake wrote: »

thanks, but on googling a little bit more it seems that once the reg is applied to a vehicle, it is the registered owner of that vehicle that has the right to transfer the plate to another vehicle or retain the plate in the future (subject, of course to a dvla fee).

form v5 from the dvla for transferring a plate confirms this (i think), as the only details required are that of the vehicle owner i.e my gf and not the original purchaser i.e newreg.

please can anyone confirm this for my peace of mind??

Stop worrying. Once it is on your girlfriend's car with both the new reg and your girlfriend's name as registered keeper on the V5, any connection with Newreg is lost.

spiro

When your GF advises her insurance of the change of reg she also needs to tell them that she wishes to retain ownership of the number. If you dont do this and the car is written off, the car and plate becomes theirs.